NHL and Dallas Stars bump Katy Perry ‘Lifetimes Tour' from original concert date
The Dallas Stars reaching the Western Conference Finals in the Stanley Cup playoffs has bumped Katy Perry from her current orbit.
The new 'astronaut' is one of the bigger pop stars in the world, but not even that status can move the Stanley Cup from its preferred dates.
The NHL, which has the power of at least four used microwave ovens combined, has told Ms. Perry to get out.
Perry is currently on her equivalent to Taylor Swift's 'The Eras Tour' with her own 'The Lifetimes Tour,' and is scheduled to play at the American Airlines Center on Wednesday, May 21 in Dallas starting at 7 p.m.
Also scheduled to start at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21 at the American Airlines Center: Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals between the Stars and the Edmonton Oilers.
According to Dallas Stars president Brad Alberts, the Perry concert has been moved to Thursday, May 22.
This conflict was not expected, but these things do happen every so often. There are always Plan Y+Z+X Emergency scenarios, and this is on Perry and her team to figure it out.
This is on Perry to show the type of range she demonstrated when she heroically sat in Blue Origin on April 14 as it broke the 'Kármán Line' to officially enter space, and returned 11 minutes after take off. Or, less time than it will take Perry to sing 'Teenage Dream,' 'Last Friday Night' and 'Hot n Cold' during her concert.
All entertainment venues, whether it's the AAC, AT&T Stadium or anything else, schedule events based on the priority given to its primary 'tenants.' In the case of the AAC, the Dallas Mavericks are given first priority followed by the Dallas Stars. After that, No. 3 are concerts, festivals, etc.
Katy Perry's global audience is just a tick bigger than an NHL team, but in terms of the building she's no better than third.
The logistics would be plentiful, but hosting an NHL Stanley Cup playoff game during a Katy Perry concert in the same building at the same time would be one hell of a night of entertainment. T-Swift never even tried that.
Alas, that kind of visionary thinking is ahead of its time. As absurd as it sounds, we should all prepare that this sort of combo-package is inevitable.
It just won't be Wednesday night at the American Airlines Center.
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